(I Blame) Society

I blame society

Society's to blame

I claim society

Is playin' a hostile game

Inside my diary

I hide my private shame

And I blame society, society

Society's to blame

I'm not sick, it's the world that is

They're hidin' their disease

Behind a giant sign that's twice the size

Of life as we perceive it to be

This sign I describe, it reads

In silence you are free

That's how they try to tie and tightly bind us

Reclined in our seats, oh my

They think that we are spineless

I think they are all cheats

It seems the Earth is speeding

Swiftly towards a grave catastrophe

That's my anxiety

It's the opposing team

To my sobriety

Whose reliable defeat

Is not surprise to me

It's always the same

And I blame society, society

Society's to blame

They provide a dried-out dream

Lying through their teeth

I find the one thousandth of one percent

Are thriving by deceit

Oh, Jesus they supply us meager feedings

While they feast in greed

Oh, Christ they prescribe a violent beating

Ninety times a week at least

They line us up in binaries for psychiatry retreats

Until they finally refine the virus

That makes us obsolete

Society, society

Society's to blame

Society, society

Society's to blame

Society's to blame

Society's to blame

Blame, blame society

I'm not sick

The system is despicable and twisted

It's nothing that you can fix with wishes

It tricks you with its little gifts

Then kicks you when you fuss or fidget

Picket it or be its critic

The fists will come down vigorously

Little bits of it are in you

Bloodstream from a single visit

An isolated incident

It's a thing of fiction

We're all complicit

Our fingerprints all bleed

And I blame society

For poisoning the seed

That grew the vilest tree

So we could be its leaves

Inside my diary

I hide my private shame

And I blame society, society

Society's to blame